Miner s-check protectok



CHRISTOPHER I-I. LONERGAN, 0F ENSLEY, ALABAMA.

laments-annex PROTECTOR.

Application filed March 12, 1919. Serial No. 282,119.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, Crr-nrs-roermn LON} ERGAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Ensley, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Miners-Check Protectors, of which the following isi a specification.

This: invention relatesto an improvement in miners car check holders adapted for at tachment to mine cars.

The object of my invention is to. provide a simple and durable device which will receive and hold the check ofthe miner loading the car to which the device. is attached 5033 to prevent the substitution of another check while at the same time providingfor the ready removal of the checkat the tipple.

V More particularly my invention contemplates the provision of a gravitating slide normally disposed ,in position to, hold a check against removal and yet which-is so disposed that the operator on the tipple can readily shift it into position in which it will permit the check to fall where it can be easily removed.

My invention also involves the novel details of construction andarrangements of parts, which in their preferred embodiments only are illustrated-in the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification, and in which:

Figure 1 is a partial sectionalview of a mine car showing my appliance 'mounted therein in vertical-cross section.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the outer casing of the device. Q r

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of the device showing the sliding guard in elevated position; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line AA o'f-Fig. 3.

. Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughoutthe drawings. Q

I have illustrated. my invention as applied to a mine car 1 which is typical of any mine car. Preferably the device is attached within the car and comprises a vertically disposed casing 2 having therein a cylindrical chamber 3 which opens through its bottom wall and extends to a point near the top wall of the casing. The casingis provided with a check admission slot 4 at a downward ofthe car, this slot and holehaving a width approximately equal to the diameter of the chamber-3 and suiiicient for the ready insertherethrough so that the latter can have access to the chamber 3 to operate the sliding tion of the fingers of the tiDple operator check guard 7 that is vertically movable in said chamber. This guard 7 is preferably formed by a section of metal pipe having in itsupper end a vertical guide slot 8 in which a pin 9 in the casing works so as to prevent the rotation of the guard. A section of the upper inner side wall of the guard is removed so as to form a notch 10 having its top wall lyingin a plane parallel with the plane of the check slot & and having its bot tom wall preferably at right angles to the long aXis of the chamber 3. The lowerhali section of theTfront. guard wall is cut away at 11, leaving a notch havingits sidewalls 12 lying in, a vertical diametricplane and its top wall 13' lying in a horizontal plane at right angles to the, walls 12 and normally disposed about half way between the bottoi'n 14: of the car and the top ofthe slot-5 and hole6, as will be seen more clearly in Fig.1. Inthis position the notch 10 is out of register with the slot 4 and the pin 9 stands near the top of the guide slot 8. A check l5 having been deposited in the slot 4: before the .car is loaded will;v stand in the dotted line position shown in Fig. 8 with its lower end resting against'the top of the tubular guard 7 and far enough above the notch 10 in the latter to insure that the j'olting of the car will not accidentally raise the notch into register with the slot 4; and thus permit theloss of the check in transit. To remove the check, the tipple operator thrusts" his finger through the registering openings 5 and 6 and catches the top wall .13 of .the

guard notch 11 and raises thelatter to the level of the top of the openings 5 and 6, as shown in Fig. 3. This brings the notch 10 into register with the slot 4, thereby permitting the check to all through the tubular guard. onto the bottom 14 of the chamber 3 r where the tipple operator can readily grasp it and withdraw it through the openings 0 and 6. The arrangement of the device is such that it is practically impossible, after removal of the check, to insert 'a new onev into the slot 4 and retain it'there until the slide can be brought back to normal position, In other words, my appliance will prevent the substitution of checks but will present no appreciable difficulty to the ready removal of the check.

Thecasing 2*is preferably made in the form of a metallic casting having the chamber 3 and slot 4 molded therein and also having side lugs or ears 16 for the reception of the screws or bolts 17 by which the casing is attached within the car.

Though the preferable point of attachment of the casing is within the car it is obvious that it maybe disposed withoutthe 7 car. While I prefer to use the tubular guard as shown, it will be obvious that any form of sliding guard which is so shaped as in normal posltion to close the slot4 and in raised position to permit the check to fall from the slot t'into the position in the casing to be accessible for removal while at the same time preventing access to the slot 4 to substitute a check, will accomplish the purposes of my invention. 1 v

This invention is not intended to be rc stricted in scope to the specific embodiments shown, but contemplates such modifications as come within the spirit and scope of the claims.

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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 1-. A m iners check protector comprising a casing'having a'slide chamber with check admissionand discharge openings at opposite ends thereof, and a vertically movable gravitatin'g slide normally disposed to close the check admission opening and having a part thereof accessible from without the casing for shifting it, said slide having a passage way therein which, when the slide 'is lifted, stands in position forthe, check to pass therethrough from the check admission slot to an exposed position opposite said discharge opening. p 2. A miners checkprotector comprising casinglhaving a slide chamber with check admission and discharge openings at opposite ends thereof, and a hollow gravitating slide normally disposed to closethe check admission opening and having a part there- .of accessible from without the casing for Y shifting it, said slide having a passage way through which when the slide is shiftedthe check passes from said admission opening to an exposed position opposite said check discharge opening.

3. A miners check protector comprising a casing having a slide-chamber opening through its bottom and provided with a check admission slot entering its upper side portion and a check removal slot opening through its lower opposite side portion, a- ,sliding checkguard vertically adjustable in 7 said chamber, means to prevent the rotation means to prevent the rotation of said guard,

there being a notchout in the upper side of said guard disposed normallybelow and out of register with said check admissionslot,

and there being a notchoutin the opposite check removal slot in the, casing, substantially as described.

lower side of said guard registering with the 5. In a miners check protector, a'casing having a vertical cylindrical chamber opening through its bottom and closed over head, there being in its upper side a check admission slot and in its bottomopposite side a check removal slot, a tubular check guard movable in said cylindrical chamber,

guard, therev bein a notchout in the upper side of said guar disposed normally below and out of register with said check admission slot, and there being a notcho-ut in the opposite lower sideof'said guardregistering with the check' removal slot in the casing, the top wall of said latter slotrin the guard standing normally spaced substantially the same distance below the top of the check position with the check admission slot inthe casing. I

' 6. In a miners check protector, the coin-v bination with a mine car, of a casting seated on the bottomof the car and attached to the side wall. thereof, there being a cylindrical chamber extending vertically from 1 the bottom to a point near the top of said casting, and'there being a check admission slot entering the upper inner side of said casting and a check removal slotentering the lower outer side of said casting, said car having a slot registering with'saijd latter slot in the casting, a section of metal pipe I vertically adjustable in said cylindrical chamber in the casting, and guide'means to 10o. guide means-to prevent the rotation of said 110 V removal slot in the casing that ;the-upper i notch in the guard stands below registering prevent the rotation of said pipe, there being an upper notch in the inner side of said pipe adapted When it is raised to register with the cheek admission slot in said casting, and the lower outer half of said pipe being cut away to leave a notch having'a top edge normally exposed below the tops of said cheok removal slots in thecar and castings, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. 10

Witness:

NoMIE WELSH. 

